A year has passed since the closing of Finbar's Hotel, a down-on-its-heels hotel on the Dublin quays. Now, with a rock star as its new owner, it has once more opened its doors-and Finbar's has become an ultra-chic gathering spot. Ladies' Night at Finbar's Hotel describes one night in its newly illustrious surroundings-a night filled with adventure and comic romp. In one room a man surreptitiously helps his wife's friend get pregnant, while next door a businesswoman battles her father. And down the hall, a nun struggles with the most important mission of her life. A fabulous mix of pathos and high humor, this is a sardonic tour of the gamut of human experience told by Ireland's finest modern storytellers. Maeve Binchy has written numerous bestsellers, most recently Tara Road. Dermot Bolger is the author of six novels and edited The Vintage Book of Contemporary Irish Fiction. Clare Boylan has written six novels and several nonfiction works, including The Literary Companion to Cats. Emma Donoghue is the author of Stirfry and Kissing the Witch, among other works. Anne Haverty's writing has been short-listed for the Whitbread Award. ƒilis N' Dhuibhne has published poetry, short fiction, children's books, and two novels. Kate O'Riordan writes for stage and screen, and has written two novels including The Bray House. Deirdre Purcell recently adapted her novel Falling for a Dancer as a four-part serial for BBC television.

Ladies' Night at Finbar's Hotel

Literature & Fiction

DONOGHUE, EMMA

Bolger, Dermot

O'Riordan, Kate

Purcell, Deirdre

Boylan, Clare

BINCHY,MAEVE

Haverty, Anne

United States

Harvest Books

An American charter flight crashes off the coast of Ireland, leaving a one-year-old girl as the only survivor. Brought up by a local fisherman, Molly becomes a famous actress, but her past throws up surprises about the man she thinks of as her brother, and the man she calls husband.

A Place of Stones

Contemporary

MACMILLAN PUB. LTD.

That Childhood Country

In the cemetery set into the hills above Drumboola in Ireland, a figure squats over one of the graves, working with a hammer and chisel, hacking off a name engraved on one of the tombstones. The events which led to this scene began two decades before. The author also wrote "A Place of Stones".

British & Irish

Falling for a Dancer

If the bus hadn't broken down that August afternoon on the road between Dublin and Cork, Elizabeth Sullivan would never have met George Gallaher, a travelling actor of infinite charm and fatal weakness. She would not have been forced to marry, nor found herself trapped in an alien landscape.

Pan Books, Ltd.

Pan.

From the author of SKY and FRANCEY, a novel which charts what happens when someone who is known and trusted is accused of rape.

Love Like Hate Adore

What happens if your brother is accused of rape? Through her narrator, Angela Devine, the author defends against intense media and public pressure on a young male in a date rape case

Entertaining Ambrose

Entertaining Ambrose is the story of the lovable May who bears lifes burdens so lightly, tending always to others needs before her own. And now her husband, Clem, has left her, with no explanation and no forwarding address, only orders not to be contacted. What do you do when your husband mysteriously ups and leaves? Do you sit around, waiting? Or do you fight to get your life back?

Pan/Macmillan

Micheal O'Brian's pregnancy has fateful consequences for two families. For the Smiths of Chicago are secure in their wealth, while the O'Briains of Inisheer struggle to make a living from the sea. Micheal's decision to have the child will cause reverberations through the next generation.

In the cemetery set into the hills about Drumboola in Ireland, a figure squats over one of the graves, working with a hammer and chisel, hacking off a name engraved on one of the tombstones. The events which led to this scene began two decades before. The author also wrote "A Place of Stones".

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Ladies' Night at Finbar's Hotel

A Place of Stones

That Childhood Country

Falling for a Dancer

Sky

Love Like Hate Adore

Love Like Hate Adore

Entertaining Ambrose

A Place of Stones

That Childhood Country